> ...straw-man argument.

Nobody is arguing that it's not intelligent because it isn't equal to human intelligence. The claim in the article is that there is simply no intelligence to speak of here.

> Of course AI is intelligent...

That's one way to make an argument. The author disagrees, as do I. I have seen no evidence whatsoever that these things can do anything truly novel or solve a problem. All I see is regurgitation.